Potential solutions to improve the governance of multicentre health services research

To the Editor:

Correspondence: sue.evans@monash.edu

Acknowledgements:

Sue Evans is supported by the Movember Foundation and the Victorian Cancer Agency through a Clinical Research Fellowship.

Competing interests:

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